8239048%wwu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (01/14/86)
From: Petersen@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA, Julie K <8239048%wwu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> 1) Pacific Amiga Users Group (suggestions for a name invited) We'll be holding our first developers' meeting on January 22nd (Wednesday 7:30-9:30). This is for heavy-duty programming information. 10851 Shellbridge Way, Richmond, B.C. 273-2243. Located just southeast of the Oak Street bridge in the Airport Executive Park, off Shell Road. 2) Hooking up printers to the Amiga I have tried dumping a Deluxe Paint file to an HP LaserJet printer. Overall the dump wasn't too bad, although somewhat 'grainy' in appear- ance, since the awesome resolution of the HP isn't matched by screen resolution. I think pretty decent black and white reproductions could be had by experimenting with the different colors to see which provides the best approxi- mation of individual tones. The blacks are good, the other colors come out with the appearance of an embroidery pattern (closest analogy I can think of). Anyone working on a good text pro- cessor to take advantage of the features of the LaserJet? Better yet, I'd like to see someone marry the Amiga with the LaserWriter--my abso- lute favorite printer (PostScript being the main reason). 3) Legal Issues Could someone please enlighten me on legal issues related to using and marketing files developed with a copyright program? Two examples: suppose you had a commercial wordprocessor and you decided to create (heaven forbid) 'form' letters, e.g. to grandma, to your banker, to your best friends, etc. for people to use as templates to save time and then sold the product for say $9.95 per disk. Example 2: people are using MacPaint to create 'clip art' and marketing them to users of MacPaint. The question: do the letter or clip-art creators have a legal obligation (monetary) to the creators of the word-processing or paint pro- gram which they are using as a tool to create the commercial product, in this context? I am asking because some of the software being developed for the Amiga seems to lend itself to this type of applica- tion and the software-hungry public and the sales of the Amiga might benefit if products of this kind were available to fill this temporary gap.
tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) (01/16/86)
Keywords: Just curious... How come the notices for the New Jersey Amiga Users Group were posted from California, and the notice for the Pacific group are being posted from New Jersey? Isn't something backwards here? :-) -- Tim Smith sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim